David Janszen wrote:
> P.S. To those who feel that they were inconvenienced by the attachment that
> Vincent kindly made for me, I think it is only fair to point out that
> during downloads, other processes are generally not locked out, so it
> should not be too hard to make productive use of one's time while receiving
> a big attachment.
But for those of us who check our email in the evening through a dial-up
connection which we have to *pay for* it is a little irksome to have to
be on the phone for 5-10 minutes waiting for huge binary attachments to
download...
> Also, if someone does not have a posting site, I do not
> really see the alternative.
Binaries newsgroup? Asking people to email privately if they would like
to receive a copy of the graphic?
In any case, there are 1,000,001 free ISPs out there with oodles of
webspace so there is really no excuse for not having *somewhere* to put
files for download.
> Lastly, in theory, such an attachment serves more than just the one making
> the request.
But it will almost always be the minority of the people on a mailing
list who are interested in a very specific query...
Robbie
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